At this year’s SAPPHIRE NOW, SAP Innovation Awards 2019 participants had the opportunity to showcase their outstanding achievements to a global audience – both onsite and on-demand. In addition, the SAP Innovation Awards team announced that the 2020 awards are now open for submissions. Award conference highlights include:

Media & Analyst Session

Alison Biggan, President, Corporate Marketing, SAP, led a customer panel, “How Best-Run Businesses Are Using Intelligent Technologies to Achieve Breakthroughs at the Speed of Change” featuring leaders from TopCon and SAP Innovation Award winners American Airlines, National Hockey League and Bumble Bee Seafoods.

Best-Run Theater Replays

In addition, many of the SAP Innovation Awards recipients were featured in SAPPHIRE NOW Best-Run Theater sessions, Customer Panels, as well as meetings with press, analysts, influencers, and other customers to share their amazing stories about innovation with SAP technologies.

Discover Why the DigitalCore is the Heartbeat of the Intelligent Enterprise – VINCI Energies	Up Your Game Through Co-Innovation and Enhanced Experiences – San Francisco 49ers	Transform Manufacturers and Service Providers to Solution Businesses – Daimler TSS
Unlock the Intelligent Enterprise Through the Internet of Things – Pregis, LLC	Unleash the Power of Intelligent Business Processes – Bumble Bee Seafoods	Travel the Road to the Intelligent Enterprise – Verizon
Achieve Business Outcomes Quickly with a Cloud Platform Built for Business – National Hockey League	Design to Operate with a Future-Ready Digital Supply Chain – Uber Technologies Inc	Power Next-Generation Business Models in Energy and Financial Services – Munich Re Risk Management Partners

Celebration Event

Winners, Honorable Mentions, and Finalists celebrated their achievements at the “SAP HAVANA Nights Networking Reception” – which included fun with peers, SAP leaders, SAP solution experts, and a new video (below) featuring all the winning use cases as well as the donation of $20,800 to the following charities / non-profits: Care, Social Enterprise Academy, and Social Good Brasil.

SAP Innovation Awards 2019 Recipients

Plans for the SAP Innovation Awards 2020

SAPPHIRE NOW 2020 will take place on May 12 – 14, 2020 in Orlando, Florida. From now through the submission deadline of December 4, 2019, the SAP Awards team will be searching for organizations and individuals from around the world who are using SAP products to transform their business, drive innovation, optimize experiences, and shape their Intelligent Enterprises.

If you’re such an innovator, SAP wants to hear from you. Tell us about the creative and innovative business solutions you’ve created using SAP technology. Inspire us!

Want to Learn More?

We have produced a compilation of amazing stories in the 2019 eBook for you to explore and learn more about the winners, honorable mentions, and finalists’ submissions.

The celebration awards video is now on the SAP Technology YouTube channel:

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